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GLOSSARY : xvii
Nāma karma - Physique
determining karma. Napumisaka veda - Neutral
libido, unsatisfiable sexual
urge of the neuter gender. Napumsaka linga - Neuter
gender. Naraka - Hell. Nāraka - Hellish being. Naraka bhūmi - Hellish ground
(One of the seven levels of hells in the nether world). Naraka gati - Hellish birth. Narakāyu - Hellih life-span. Nāśa – Destruction. Naya - Standpoint, viewpoint. Nayavāda - Doctrine of
standpoints, relativism. Nidāna - Desire for future. Nidāna salya - Desire sting Nidrā - Sleep. Nidrā nidra - Deep sleep. Nidrāvedanīya – Sleep inducing,
sleepy feeling producing
(karma). Nigoda - Lowest micro-scopic
life form found in vegetational
bodies. Nigraha - Control, restrict. Nihiśalya - Without sting. Nihiśreyasa - Spiritual bliss,
salvation, liberation. Nikāya -group, class. Niksepa - Installation, positing. Nindā - Condemnation. Ninhaya - Heretic. Nirantara - Continuous. Nirbhayatā - Fearlessness.
Nirgrantha - Without the knot
(of attachment), the ascetic who has completely overcome attachment-aversion and passions and are at the verge of attaining complete spiritual
purity and omniscience. Nirjarā - Separation,
dissociation, shedding. Nirjarānupreksā - Reflec-tion
on the ways to achieve nirjara. Nirodha - Stoppage. Nirvartanā - Making, without
passage. Nirveda - Detachment. Nirvratatva -Vowlessness, Niscaya dısti – Absolute view. Niśrā - Support, shelter. Nisadyā parīsaha - Affliction of
continuous sittings for long periods of time during spiritual
practices by an ascetic. Niskriya - Inert, inactive. Nisarga - Nature. Nisarga kriyā - Natural activity. Nitya - Permanent, eternal,
unending. Nityānitya - Teperaro
permanent, Permanent and changeable. (Like permanence of matter and change of modes). Nityatva - Eternality,
permanence. Nirvrttīndriya - Physical
appearance, shape or formation
of organ. Nīcagotra - Low status.
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